[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 14, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H727]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  NATO

  (Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the core of NATO is Article 5: 
An attack on one is an attack on all.
  Since the end of World War II, the U.S. and our allies have honored 
and operated on this mutual trust. President Truman called it a 
neighborly act.
  There is no article for if a NATO member attacks another because for 
80 years, we have led a peaceful partnership for our shared democratic 
ideals. Truman considered the treaty a means to establish freedom from 
aggression and from the use of force in the North Atlantic community. 
If one ally invaded another, the center would not hold.
  Now, President Trump seeks to threaten our historic alliance by his 
flippant, poisonous quip that we will have Greenland one way or 
another. As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I have met 
with the Prime Minister of Denmark and other key allies. They believe 
in America's global leadership. They have fought and died alongside us 
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Now, they fear our words. They plan for a future in which the United 
States is no longer the indispensable nation, a core global ally.
  This cannot be the path we forge. It is good to have friends, and in 
order to have friends, we must be one.

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